Articles by Scott Blair

More than 100 ships have passed smoothly through the Panama Canal's new $5.4-billion third lane; more turbulent is the ongoing dispute over nearly $3.5 billion in contractor claims.

Swinerton project accountant Thea Hem took this iPhone photo, which shows the dramatic scale of the Trinity Venus sculpture by Lawrence Argent in San Francisco.

The construction boom in California continues to widen to a scale hard to imagine just a few years ago.

Bored of her decade-long career as a graphic designer, Blue Coble of Phoenix ditched her desk job and picked up a wrench instead.

The judges looked at projects in many markets and examined safety performance, innovations, challenges, and design and construction quality - with a special emphasis on the diversity of global project teams and their collaboration.

Panama’s 10-year, $5.4-billion effort to add a third set of locks culminated on June 9, as tugboats guided a 255-meter-long bulk carrier, named Baroque, into the first lock.

A three-day conference providing demonstrations, presentations and networking by firms inventing, piloting and implementing technologies to address construction’s future left attendees bullish on tech prospects for the construction industry and heading home with ideas to deploy.

General contractors participating in ENR California’s annual survey show no signs of slowing down. Cumulatively, the 89 participating firms tabulated more than $32.7 billion in revenue during 2015, an increase of almost 20% over 2014.